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Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema by Rachel Morley science fiction наоборотOriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918), made shortly before the pre Revolutionary film industry was dismantled by the new Soviet government, the female performer remains central. In this